Hacker News: jckahn

New comment by jckahn in "Working on Products People Hate"

jckahn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:03:16 +0000

> moving to a different workplace is always an option.

This is, very often, not a practical option for many people.

Have you seen the market lately?

New comment by jckahn in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

jckahn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:54:23 +0000

All hail the pelican king!

New comment by jckahn in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"

jckahn — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:26:26 +0000

This game is a really big deal for me! I was addicted to it in high school and it left a lasting impression. Drugwars directly inspired my passion project, Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.life/

I'm so happy to see this pop up here! :)

New comment by jckahn in "Never knew news websites could survive without ads"

jckahn — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:10:15 +0000

Yes, when they are publicly funded.

Are you a regular donor?

New comment by jckahn in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

jckahn — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:54:47 +0000

Personally I just adopt an attitude of utter nihilism and fatalism. I remind myself regularly that I'm going to die someday, like a mantra. Everything I think or care about won't ultimately matter. The only rational choice is to try and make the most of today.

New comment by jckahn in "Layoffs at Block"

jckahn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:51:51 +0000

Because productivity doesn't scale linearly with quantity of developers. There's a point where it plateaus or even descends as quantity of developers goes up.

New comment by jckahn in "The silent death of good code"

jckahn — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:53:36 +0000

> I know I'm tired of reading them, but don't people get bored of writing them?

Look, it's either this or a dozen articles a day about Claude Code.

New comment by jckahn in "The silent death of good code"

jckahn — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:51:47 +0000

I've come accept that producing code I'm truly proud of is now my hobby, not my career. The time it takes to write Good Code is unjustifiable in a business context and I can't make the case for it outside of personal projects.

New comment by jckahn in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

jckahn — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:15:00 +0000

Well said.

It's for exactly this reason that I believe Google will win the AI race.

New comment by jckahn in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

jckahn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:28:05 +0000

Yeah I don't understand why everyone seems to have forgotten about the Gemini options. Antigravity, Jules, and Gemini CLI are as good as the alternatives but are way more cost effective. I want for nothing with my $20/mo Google AI plan.

New comment by jckahn in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

jckahn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:03:23 +0000

Just goes to show that attention is all you need.

New comment by jckahn in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

jckahn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:06:51 +0000

> One of the things that makes Clawdbot great is the allow all permissions to do anything.

Is this materially different than giving all files on your system 777 permissions?

New comment by jckahn in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"

jckahn — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:54:12 +0000

From what I've read, OpenClaw only truly works well with Opus 4.5.

New comment by jckahn in "Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users"

jckahn — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:04:31 +0000

It's like the ice bucket challenge but with rusty nails

New comment by jckahn in "LM Studio 0.4"

jckahn — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:10:41 +0000

Jan: https://www.jan.ai/

New comment by jckahn in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

jckahn — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:16:27 +0000

Assuming this is a serious comment, what do you propose instead if the health system is shut down?

New comment by jckahn in "Web development is fun again"

jckahn — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:55:45 +0000

Alternatively, just use a local model with zero restrictions.

New comment by jckahn in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

jckahn — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:22:09 +0000

I've had a similar experience with being a relatively prolific OSS contributor. It's a decent look professionally, but it hasn't led to employment.

New comment by jckahn in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

jckahn — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:17:07 +0000

No, it is. That's how I use mine.

New comment by jckahn in "I'm just having fun"

jckahn — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:36:50 +0000

Yes, but that often breaks down once you have bills to pay and need steady income. Real life tends to complicate things. The risk-averse path is a valid choice too, and often the only sensible one.